Blindness

Attribution for this enduringly popular cliche dates back to the seventeenth century and a somewhat longer old English version from John Clarke’s Paromiologia: “Blind as a bat at noone.” Less used variants are “Blind as a beetle” and “Blind as a buzzard.”

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